Mobile BI Best Practice: Author Once, Distribute Everywhere
Going mobile with your business intelligence finally means it can reach everyone in your organization. The benefits are plentiful – you can stop making decisions without the benefit of your business intelligence data, because it’s always there for you when you need it. Mobile business intelligence can be there with you for the impromptu hallway conversations, the lunch meetings, and the off site meetings with your clients and customers. At the moment, only 8% of employees in the average organization are using business intelligence to conduct their work – but what if mobile business intelligence could increase this number and therefore increase productivity and improve decision-making?
Mobile business intelligence requires different thinking to traditional desktop bases business intelligence. You have different platforms (desktop vs. tablet, smartphone), different needs (more focused information on demand), and you need the information condensed and quickly as you are on the go. Because of this, there are some best practices for mobile business intelligence that you should be aware of. First up, is dashboard proliferation and how to avoid it.
You can’t produce the same dashboards on your tablet device as on your desktop. You need to have them adapted. While you want to use the same dashboards as on your desktop, you will be using them in different ways. You don’t want to duplicate any dashboards either, so what is the answer? Author one dashboard, and distribute it everywhere. When you create your dashboard on one machine, you can make it available on all relevant devices. This is best practice, so to adopt it, make sure that your business intelligence solution offers that kind of functionality. Intelligence BI software will detect your platform and optimize it for touch, if necessary. This saves a lot of time and maintenance, and ensures fluid transition to different working platforms – so hit your desk at 9am and then bring your tablet on your coffee break at 11am, you’ve got your dashboard to hand all the time!
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